Despite the steady transition to wireless earbuds, including the best AirPods, Apple has continued to make wired earbuds According to new rumors, the EarPods, which appeared with the iPhone 5 and have graced our earlobes for 14 years, may finally be coming to an end

Over on X, Aaron Perris (and spotted by our friends at iMore) claims that Target is listing three variations of the Apple EarPods as “Non-Carry Foward” In general, this means that retailers like Target will no longer receive inventory of that product, suggesting that Apple is about to discontinue one of its longest-loved Apple accessories

EarPods used to come with the iPhone, but Apple stopped the practice with the iPhone 12 EarPods come in Lightning, 35mm, and USB-C cable variants, but the 35mm headphone jack has been dead since the iPhone 7 had been dead since the iPhone 7 The port officially disappeared in 2018 when Apple discontinued production of the iPhone SE and 6S, the last iPhones with a 35mm port The company also stopped bundling the 35mm dongle

Apple is a trendsetter, and when it removed earbuds from its new iPhones, rivals like Samsung didn't wait long to join them, just as most phones no longer have a headphone jack and most new smartphones don't have chargers They didn't wait

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